idk man I just need to vent i guess
my employer “provides” health insurance in exchange for my time and labor, and for that great privilege they take $600 out of my paycheck every month (covers me, my wife, and our 1yo son)
that’s half our monthly mortgage payment; it’s 2/3 our monthly grocery bill
why?
It’s kinda like this: you walk dogs for a living, you vote left hoping that they’ll come to power and print a lot of money and just pay for everything you need, one day your dream comes true and you wake up in Venezuela.
And as to why all sane countries have a forced universal healthcare insurance that will deduct from your paycheck exactly as OP described, and will do as an obligation by law, you can consider me copy-pasting this thing as an explanation:
https://pubs.aeaweb.org/doi/pdfplus/10.1257/jep.31.4.23